Word: sashimi
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...watch to see how he gets the name) never dispatches an enemy with a smug, hip one-liner; he's an appealingly naive, reserved wanderer, as might be found in one of the spaghetti westerns Tartakovsky also cites as an influence. You might call Jack a soba western. Or sashimi sci-fi. Either way, you'll slurp...
...ROWAN ATKINSON Mr. Bean creator crashes his Aston Martin into a wall. Sits with a disconsolate expression wondering when Harrison Ford will show up BORIS BECKER Tennis maestro must pay child support after siring a child in a Japanese restaurant broom-closet with a model. What was in that sashimi? VLAD DRACUL PRINCE KRETZULESCO Transylvanian royal loses suit against firm selling Dracula wine. His case against Kretzulesco Fish Fingers was also dismissed...
...make love and make money, and a magnet for people from all over impoverished China, who sneak or bribe their way in. (Two-thirds of the population doesn't have a residency permit.) It's a city of big-time crime, beggar syndicates, drug trafficking, restaurants serving lobster sashimi to mafia-entrepreneurs?and a home to what the Hong Kong government says is a half-million illegitimate children. The population now totals 4 million, and the economy is growing at 31% a year. Call it China's Tiajuana, with a dash of the Jetsons...
After some thought, he turned to Japanese recipes for inspiration. Heartbeat serves fluke sashimi, the transparent slices wrapped around cilantro and topped with sweet raw shrimp. Nischan sears his tuna tataki-style, drizzling the slices with vinaigrette and resting them on pieces of blood orange. A tea sommelier presents a lovely sencha, or Japanese green tea, to accompany the meal. "I've had a lot of skeptics give us big hugs," says Nischan, an affable father of five with a blond ponytail. "People say things like, I've got to eat sushi, I was at Peter Luger's [steak house...
...their wiseguys. The myth of the noble mafioso may be badly frayed in most countries but Korea's gangsters?or "fists," as they are called?are still folk heroes. (The term comes from a traditional preference for fist fights?not until the 1970s did Korean gangsters move up to sashimi knives, and guns are still rare.) Fists are the subject of best-selling books, and most of last year's hit movies were gangster flicks. In real life, most mobsters make their living from extortion, prostitution and gambling. But films about the underworld tap into nostalgia among the older generation...